It’s no real secret that a movie’s rating can affect its box-office numbers. Receiving an NC-17 rating, for example, can mean commercial death for a film. But how are these ratings achieved, and who is responsible for establishing the ratings?

Wondering whether the curse of Shakespeare’s Scottish play is real? Just ask the cast of The Coronado Playhouse’s “Romeo and Juliet,” which is now certain that the curse, laid upon those who utter the title of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy about…